Christopher Hyndman [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 406A Sherzer
Phone: (734) 487-1268 x 246

Office Hours:

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN - 4:30 - 7:00 - 8:00 - 1:00 (by appointment only) - 4:30 - 7:00

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Bio:
Chris Hyndman is a painter born in London, Ontario. In 2001, Chris completed his MFA in Painting & Drawing at Ohio University (Athens, Ohio). While at Ohio U., Chris taught courses in drawing, painting and color theory. Previous to his time in Athens, he completed a BA (major: fine art; minor: mathematics) at the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario). This summer, Chris attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine), a competitive residency program for advanced visual artists.

Artist Statement:
Within the onslaught of images demanding our attention each day, Chris seeks those that we usually edit from our vision--the ‘noise’ of television and the pattern of fabric, for example. From these he reconstructs a world built on unusual painting procedures informed by the video landscape and the camouflage of tartans.

”By responding to some aspect of how the source itself comes to be, I hope that the painting will hold a quality of the source that goes beyond depiction or resemblance. I want the tartans and the television images to be models for making paintings, not just images for paintings."

"More and more of the world that I encounter cloaks a complex network of specific and carefully ordered relationships with a banal, fast & easy, user-friendly exterior. Something as 'simple' as my telephone's dial tone requires lines and lines of computer code; ATM's deliver cash in an instant from bank accounts in other states and countries. The difference between the unseen and unknown time of figuring, trouble-shooting and producing, and the almost instant experience of viewing, receiving and consuming, is extreme. I think that both the sources that I work with and the paintings that I make hold aspects of this reality. I would like my work to model this situation--not as a point of pride, or recognition of labor--but rather in the hope that one can experience the paintings in a way that makes sense for what they are and how we experience things in the world."

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John DeHoog [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 101 Briggs
Phone: (734) 487-0192

Christopher Hyndman [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 406A Sherzer
Phone: (734) 487-1268 x 246